her first tour in seven years is routed as residencies rather than as a lap of the country — and that decision explains almost everything else about it.
the short answer
yes — the eternal sunshine tour is running now. it is 41 shows across 11 cities, opening at oakland arena on 6 june 2026 and closing at the o2 in london on 1 september 2026. it is routed as residencies rather than as a conventional trek: three nights in most cities, five in new york, and 10 at the o2. every date, with the setlist, is on the tour page.
why it is residencies and not a trek
the default shape of an arena tour is one night per city and forty cities. this is the opposite: eleven cities, and the tour parks in each of them. three nights in oakland's neighbours and in austin, atlanta, sunrise, boston, montreal and chicago; five at barclays center in new york; 10 consecutive-ish nights at the o2 in london.
that is a bet, and a fairly bold one: it assumes people will travel to her rather than the other way round. it is also enormously better for the show itself. a production that does not have to be struck and trucked every night can be bigger, and a performer who is not on a bus five nights a week can sing harder. after a seven-year gap and a catalogue that leans on a voice rather than on staging, both of those matter more here than they would for most artists.
the routing
the north american leg runs june into early august and finishes in chicago; the run then moves to london for the rest of august and the first of september. the full night-by-night list — including the three dates that moved early in the north american leg, all rescheduled within days rather than cancelled — is on the tour page, which is generated from the same data this article is.
what she plays
the set is built in five acts and an encore, and it is unusually loyal to the current record: eleven of its songs come from eternal sunshine. a seven-year gap normally produces a greatest-hits sprint, and this is not that. the hits are there, but they are placed rather than stacked, and the run closes on three songs rather than on a finale designed for a phone camera.
we do not reproduce the set here as a list to be scrolled past — it is on the tour page, act by act, with each title linked into the catalogue so you can go and hear the studio version of anything you did not recognise. the setlist is sourced from setlist.fm and stamped with the night it was observed, because a setlist changes and a page that pretends otherwise is lying to you by omission.
the first tour since 2019
the last time she toured, the sweetener world tour played a hundred shows to 1.3 million people and finished in december 2019. the seven years since went into film sets — two wicked films shot back to back — a pandemic, and two albums released without a tour behind them. positions never got one; eternal sunshine got one four years late.
if you want the shape of the whole live career rather than just this run, that is every tour she has done, in order.
questions people ask
is ariana grande touring in 2026?
yes. the eternal sunshine tour is 41 shows running from 6 june 2026 to 1 september 2026, across north america and london.
how many shows is the eternal sunshine tour?
41 dates in 11 cities, routed as residencies — three nights in most cities, five in new york and 10 at the o2 in london.
where does the eternal sunshine tour finish?
the o2 arena in london, on 1 september 2026. london takes the whole final stretch of the run.
is ariana grande playing outside north america and the uk?
not on this run. the routing is north america and london only, which is unusual for her — every previous tour except the 2013 listening sessions played at least three continents.
when was ariana grande's last tour before this?
the sweetener world tour, which ended in december 2019. this is her first run in seven years.